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Call for Papers: Perelman Conference in Oregon

CALL FOR PAPERS

THE PROMISE OF REASON:

THE NEW RHETORIC AFTER FIFTY YEARS

University of Oregon May 17-20, 2008

Faculty and Graduate Students are invited to submit proposals for papers and panels for this international conference commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's Le nouvelle rhtorique: Trait de largumentation (1958), one of the most influential twentieth-century rhetorical works.

Submissions are welcome dealing with any aspect of Perelman's work and influence, or argumentation, informal reasoning, or modern rhetoric in general. Interdisciplinary work in rhetoric and/or argumentation theory is welcome. Of specific interest are proposals dealing with the following:

legal argument and justice rhetoric and human rights ethical rhetoric and communications argumentation as a substitute for violence international diplomacy and conflict resolution rationality and reasonableness in international relations negotiated assent in public debate opposition and cooperation is conflict situations argumentation across cultures persuasion and leadership

Featured speakers at the conference will include:

Jeanne Fahnestock, University of Maryland Alan G. Gross, University of Minnesota Michael C. Leff, University of Memphis Noemi Mattis Perelman Francis J. Mootz III, Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University Christopher W. Tindale, University of Windsor Barbara Warnick, University of Pittsburgh

A public "Contrarian Forum" including a debate by advocates for public policy with responses on the rhetoric of the debate by conference participants Master Classes conducted for graduate and undergraduate students by conference speakers Competitive scholarships for undergraduates to attend the conference and master classes Organized outings to experience Oregon's pleasures: rafting, wine-tasting, mountain hiking, coastal sight-seeing Proximity to the Rhetoric Society of America's annual conference in Seattle Washington, May 23-26, 2008